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The genus Mesembryanthemum is in the family Aizoaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Mesembryanthemum

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Mesembryanthemum aitonis Jacq.	Accepted		TRO
Mesembryanthemum cryptanthum Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Mesembryanthemum horridum Koutnik & Lavis	Accepted		TRO
Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 1,321 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Mesembryanthemum. Of these 5 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 7 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Mesembryanthemum. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 1,321 species names for the genus Mesembryanthemum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	0.4%
◕	Synonym	157	11.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1,159	87.7%

All names

The status of the 1,328 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Mesembryanthemum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	0.4%
◕	Synonym	163	12.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1,160	87.3%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 1,321 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Mesembryanthemum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	5	137	0	0	142	10.7%
	Low confidence	0	20	0	1,159	1,179	89.3%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Mesembryanthemum, are as follows: